Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks website, has been charged with rape by Swedish prosecutors, it was announced today. An arrest warrant has been issued for the 37-year-old free speech campaigner, who is still in Sweden on a visit to defend his organisation’s release of classified documents

The spokesman on sexual equality for the Swedish police was sent to jail yesterday after being convicted of aggravated rape and other sex offences, in what is being seen as the biggest police scandal in Swedish history. Göran Lindberg, a 65-year-old chief of police who retired last year, was

It sounds like a case straight from a Wallander novel: a mysterious death leads to the discovery of a sordid Scandinavian sex ring allegedly masterminded by the chief of police. But real-life revelations about the double life of one of Sweden’s best-known law enforcers have shocked and mesmerised

Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm today as Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden married her former personal trainer. The wedding, the biggest royal occasion in Europe since Prince Charles married Lady Diana, saw her fiancé Daniel Westling, 36, break down in tears at the altar as he said “I do” to

The courtship was a fairytale, but Europe’s biggest royal wedding for a generation is not without its critics. More than 1,000 guests — including the great and good of the Continent’s high society — will witness Crown Princess Victoria marrying her former personal trainer tomorrow. It is

A Bournemouth student emerged this weekend as the unlikely wedge that drove apart a princess and her playboy fiancé, ending one of Europe’s most glamorous royal romances. The wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Jonas Bergstrom, a lawyer, was called off on Saturday after Tora Uppstrom Berg

For a short while, the thieves were one step ahead of the detectives. And for Swedish police and shoeshop owners, that was exactly the problem: why were people stealing the left shoes of designer footwear from Stockholm boutiques? Perhaps it was a case for Slipper of the Yard, but eventually the

The Nazi gang that ordered the theft of the infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ sign from the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland planned to sell it to fund violent attacks against the Swedish Prime Minister and Parliament, it was claimed today. A spokesman for the Swedish security police

A strong attempt from a self-styled Viking Margaret Thatcher to complete a take-over for the Right in Scandinavia failed last night, according to provisional results from Norway’s close-run election. Siv Jensen, 40, the leader of the populist Progress Party, who has modelled herself on the former

The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. The pro-file-sharing party is Sweden’s third biggest political group according to a poll ahead of the upcoming European